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We performed a comparison between AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring and Catchpoint based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring vs. Catchpoint Report (Updated: March 2024).
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"One noteworthy feature is user journey analysis, which enables tracking user interactions and conversion paths on a website.""The most valuable feature is the one that enables you to have visibility into the end-users journey.""AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring provides smooth connectivity to different applications.""We can see the customer's path from their computer to the backend systems.""The most valuable feature is that we can see how our end-users are interacting with our application across regions.""We used AppDynamics to identify gaps and bottlenecks in the software.""It provides a lot of data, so it helps businesses identify their user base.""The most valuable feature is the end-user monitoring."

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"Catchpoint is very flexible and also provides logs for troubleshooting purposes. It helps us fix issues within the SLAs signed with the end users. The tool is easy to learn.""The best feature in Catchpoint is the alert or the notification my company gets frequently, in particular, every five minutes. It's the notification you get whenever a respective market has an issue. There's also a dashboard in Catchpoint that shows the markets you support, so all the markets will be highlighted graphically in the dashboard whenever there's downtime that could affect you. If there's no issue for a specific market, it will be in green, so in this way, anybody would be able to understand which market has issues and which market has no issues through Catchpoint. The tool is very useful for monitoring activities.""The most valuable features of Catchpoint are basically the transaction monitors on the API and UI.""Catchpoint provides a great amount of information.""Catchpoint helped us establish that something is in a provider network, so we could tell our customers to check their internet provider because the traffic is not getting to us. You need to be gentle when you tell them that, but the fact that we could do it was crucial.""The solution offers three different ways of slicing data to look for abnormalities.""We really need the API monitoring, as well as client side session monitoring, the global synthetic monitoring, to track the availability of the systems from the customer side.""The thing I like most is the tech support in this company, because they have 24/7 chat support. We can chat immediately and ask them about an issue and they keep responding. They create tickets on our behalf and respond."

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"I would like to see support for mobile testing and mobile monitoring.""The pricing falls within the mid-range category.""We would like to be able to easily use this solution to monitor our Java script based browsers, which are currently blocked by the security settings.""AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring needs to offer an end-to-end experience, including the internet layer and third-party elements that come into play on websites.""AppD is really cool and a unified solution for both APM and APM centric Analytics side. We can show almost all business data within the APM context from the end-user perspetive. But this process is a little bit manual. If they catch and map business journeys based on customer interaction on the browser automatically, it should be really fine.""If you have a single URL and all the operations are coming in as part of the header, you will not be able to segregate them for different actions.""I would like to have customizable dashboards to use when I am monitoring certain applications.""The interface and user experience could be better."

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"There are essentially a lot of quotas. Nobody wants to sit and manually create monitors for someone who uses synthetic monitoring.""There's still too much manual involvement in getting customized test configurations out there. It's good, but it still takes a lot of effort. In other words, it's when you need to configure it to collect a specific variable and that kind of thing.""if we need to do performance analysis, we have to click too many times. For example, if there is an issue that is caught by Catchpoint, we need to understand what the error is and at which step it failed, or which transaction that is impacted. To drill down, we have to click too many things to get the answer.""A room for improvement in Catchpoint is that it lacks an automated page updating feature. My company receives all the alerts and notifications it needs, but the page doesn't update automatically. You need to manually refresh the page, so every five minutes you need to refresh it to see the most updated information. If there's an automated page refresh feature, that would help my company. It's a feature that Grafana has. The page auto-refreshes in Grafana, so you don't have to manually refresh the page. If that feature is implemented in Catchpoint, it'll be useful for the users. Another area for improvement in the tool is you have to do a manual task, for example, when you have a notification for a market, you get a zip code that the user could have entered, but if the zip code is incorrect, you have to manually go into Catchpoint and update that parameter, so that manual step is another area in the tool that needs improvement.""Catchpoint can be improved by focusing solely on network monitoring.""Trending needs improvement. Currently, out-of-the-box, they provide only seven days availability. So, we have to do queries and we have to go into a separate analysis module, we have to run lot of queries to long-term trends.""A large selection of nodes are available but it is a challenge to test reliably in China and the Middle East.""We would like the script creation feature of this solution to be improved, as it currently requires a complicated manual process to update the scripts."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "This price of this product is expensive."
  • "AppDynamics is more expensive than competitors."
  • "AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring does have licensing cost associated with it."
  • "AppDynamics does not usually do monthly payments. They do it on an annual basis, at the very least."
  • "We have two different licensing models for this solution. One of them is the agent based model, which requires payment per agent. The other is an infrastructure based model, where the price is based on the CPU core. For the infrastructure model wholesale level pricing applies. All of the up to date licensing prices for this product are available on the manufacturers website."
  • "The pricing needs to come down."
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  • "The price and licensing are very, very high. They have to come down on the pricing to match with the industry standard."
  • "In terms of licensing fees, I believe they were slightly higher."
  • "The pricing is based on consumption and works on a point scale. For example, let's say I want to look at www.google.com, and I'm going to test it to see if it's there. It will bring back all this data that tells me how long it took to connect and how long it took to get the first byte. It will list all the resources on the page, showing that they all work and there are no broken links. It brings that data back. That test has an assigned point value depending on what you decide to extract from that test. If all I do is check to see whether it's available, it might be one point. I don't know the exact point values off-hand. This is just an example."
  • "The solution's pricing is comparable to the last tool we were using."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:One noteworthy feature is user journey analysis, which enables tracking user interactions and conversion paths on a website.
    Top Answer:The pricing falls within the mid-range category. I would rate it between three to five because considering the features provided, it offers value for money. If utilized effectively, the investment is… more »
    Top Answer:In user monitoring, AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring should provide a better user experience. It needs to offer an end-to-end experience, including the internet layer and third-party elements… more »
    Top Answer:Catchpoint provides a great amount of information.
    Top Answer:I rate the price a two out of ten, where one is a high price and ten is a low price.
    Top Answer:Catchpoint tries to cover the full stack of other computers. However, it is not a good idea because many computers can check the complete spec monitoring, like Datadog, New Relic and Dynatrace. Hence… more »
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    Overview

    How do real users experience your browser-based applications? Using browser real-user monitoring follow their journey and optimize their experience with powerful end-to-end performance management that rapidly identifies application issues and relevant business transactions, and dramatically reduces MTTR.

    Catchpoint is the Internet Resilience Company™. The top online retailers, Global2000, CDNs, cloud service providers, and xSPs in the world rely on Catchpoint to increase their resilience by catching any issues in the Internet Stack before they impact their business. Catchpoint’s Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) suite offers synthetics, RUM, performance optimization, high fidelity data and flexible visualizations with advanced analytics. It leverages thousands of global vantage points (including inside wireless networks, BGP, backbone, last mile, endpoint, enterprise, ISPs, and more) to provide unparalleled observability into anything that impacts your customers, workforce, networks, website performance, applications, and APIs.

    Learn more at: https://www.catchpoint.com/

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    Financial Services Firm21%
    Retailer7%
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    Large Enterprise62%
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    Buyer's Guide
    AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring vs. Catchpoint
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring vs. Catchpoint and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is ranked 25th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 14 reviews while Catchpoint is ranked 20th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 12 reviews. AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is rated 8.2, while Catchpoint is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring writes "End-to-end visibility, feature-rich, but the support could be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Catchpoint writes "The UI is well designed, so it's easy to get the visibility you want". AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is most compared with Elastic Observability, New Relic and AWS X-Ray, whereas Catchpoint is most compared with Dynatrace, ThousandEyes, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and AppDynamics. See our AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring vs. Catchpoint report.

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